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From the Newsstands: This story appeared in The Eagle's April 2023 print edition. You can find the digital version here.
Editor's Note: This story contains references to gun violence.
From the Newsstands: This story appeared in The Eagle's April 2023 print edition. You can find the digital version here.
From the Newsstands: This story appeared in The Eagle's April 2023 print edition. You can find the digital version here.
Students often use spring break as an opportunity to travel or rest. However, at American University, those who cannot afford to leave campus face a reality far from adventure or relaxation. First-generation students are more likely to stay on campus over breaks, as they face greater degrees of financial instability and have less income to travel. The University leaves these on-campus students vulnerable to food insecurity over the week-long break as its meal plans become almost entirely unusable with no adequate alternatives.
There is a mental health crisis among youth in the United States.
We question everything but alcohol culture. We challenge consumerism. We pick apart our universities’ financial motives. We play devil’s advocate, debate capitalism and discuss the industrial complex of every structure in America. However, we never examine what systems of power are at play when every year the alcohol industry gets $5.5 billion from college students as nearly 700,000 of us get physically assaulted in its presence.
We often joke about the inconvenience of taking the stairs. No one wants to dredge their feet up them, and even people going to the second floor of a building will opt for the elevator. But what happens when that inconvenience turns into an access issue? What happens when stairs are the only option to get up and down a building; what if your university has buildings that are only accessed through stairs? This is a problem that plagues American University’s campus.
Articles about humanities and social sciences with “most-regretted majors” headlines are common in the U.S. Many conversations surrounding the future of humanities bring into question whether the fields still play a valuable role in our higher education system.
Course registration at American University can not only be stressful, but also inaccessible and costly. The burdens that come with registration are heightened by the inaccessibility of course syllabuses.
The concept for the American University Experience courses was introduced in 2015, and the first AUx course was implemented into the curriculum for first-year students in 2018. Since 2018, the AUx1 and AUx2 courses have been both criticized and celebrated. However, the courses still leave students wondering if AUx is a class that is worth their time. Is it really accomplishing all that the University claims it does?
Although American University is regarded as one of the most liberal colleges in the United States, it can often lack cultural perspective due to its predominantly white student body. I see this lack of perspective in derogatory whispers about professors with Middle Eastern, Central American and African accents. I have had few professors of non-American backgrounds at AU, but those I have had the privilege of taking classes with were extremely knowledgeable. However, they are unfortunately subject to comments about their accents and culture from other students. At AU, multilingual skills and cultural knowledge are seen as barriers instead of being seen as evidence of knowledge and world perspectives beneficial to learning.
I decided to take a women’s, gender, and sexuality studies class this semester. Truthfully, I needed a general elective credit and could have taken a wide variety of subjects, but I chose this one, Women’s Voices Through Time, WGSS-150, because I was interested in learning more about women and their actions in mainstream history. As a woman, I was excited to learn more about history that relates to my identity.
Books assigned as in-class readings in elementary, middle and high school curriculums represent the first step in a student’s journey toward future academic and professional careers. From second grade to senior year, and from Dr. Suess to Dostoyevsky, reading is integral to learning and academic progress. For decades, access to a wide range of fictional novels and historical works were a formative cornerstone of American schooling.
A few months ago, I wrote this piece after finding that my TikTok for you page had been filled with videos featuring the Demi Lovato song, “29.” At first, I scrolled through mindlessly, paying no attention to the details or contents of the TikTok videos, until one day I did. “Holy s***,” I thought. Then, I listened to the full song.
The college experience is built for making connections. As I near graduation, I have grown increasingly worried about finding places where I can connect with people outside of work. It is easy in college to make a community because college life revolves around that. Starting from the first day, there is orientation, communal living, clubs, campus activities and so much more that allow students to create community. Even without these planned events, every building serves as a free communal space where students can interact and occupy a public area.
Editor's note: This story contains references to sexual assault.
D.C. is a hub of possibilities, and colleges in the area pride themselves on students taking full advantage of it. Georgetown University highlights, “Our location in D.C. opens the door for students to intern,” and George Washington University uses words like “your dream internship” when describing the ease at which a student can find an internship in the heart of the capital. American University similarly states that, “One of the greatest advantages to studying in Washington, D.C. is the unparalleled access that you have to internships.” Our shuttle stops, like the one in front of Kogod, tote the high percentage of students who have partaken in an internship.
Last semester, 11 fire alarms went off in the Centennial, Anderson and Letts Halls complex. According to emails that students received after alarms, more than half were intentional pulls, meaning that someone pulled the physical fire alarm and smoke did not cause the alert. Not only are these constant fire alarms annoying, but they make the living environment in the residence halls unsustainable for students’ livelihoods.
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